Lipstick applicator



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LIPSTICK APPLICATOR Filad lay l3,- 1938 INVENT OR.

s ael Bl00m,

MB- ATTORNEY.

Patented May 21, 1940 2,201,467

UNITE-D STATES PATENT OFFICE LIPSTICK APPLIOATOR Israel Bloom, New .York, N. Y.

Application May 13, 1938, Serial No. 207,674

1 Claim. (01. 132-79) The invention herein disclosed relates to appliquired. The two part unit may then be replaced cators for applying lipstick material. and the thimble cover l6, slipped off to expose Other objects and the novel features of conthe applicator M, which then may be used to struction, combinations and relations of parts spread the material, remove any excess material, are set forth or will appear in the course of the etc. When this is done, the thimble may be 6 following specification. replaced to keep the applicator in a protected The drawing accompanying and forming part sanitary condition. If the spreader only is reof the specification illustrates certain practical quired, the thimble It may be slipped off, leaving commercial forms of the invention, but it will the lipstick material fully covered. The crystal be appreciated that structure may be modified plastic is easily wiped clean or may be washed l0 'and changed all within the true intent and without injury. If desired, the tips can .be readily broad scope of the invention ashereinafter dereplaced. fined and claimed. In the second form of the invention illustrated Fig. 1 is a side view of an embodiment of the in Figs. 4 and 5, the applicator is mounted at invention, with the cover partly broken away the opposite end of the base from the lipstick 5 to illustrate constructional details. material. This is accomplished by making the Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view as on base sleeve 1, with a back extension i8, forming substantially the plane of line 22 of Fig. 1. a tubular holder in which the applicator is Fig. 3 is a side view of the applicator detached seated and in which it may be secured in the from its holder. same manner as before described. In this double- 20 Fig. 4 is a side view of another embodiment ended construction, one thimble-like cover 2|, of the invention. slips over the end of the base sleeve which car- Fig. 5 is a longitudinalsectional view as on ries the sliding lipstick holder 8, and the second line 5-5 of Fig.4. thimble cover i!2,-fits over the reversely pro- 5 Figs. 6 and '7 are front and edge views respecjecting extension l8, of the base sleeve.

tively of a modified form of applicator. Different forms of applicators may be pro- The body of the device consists of a base sleeve vided. Thus as shown in Figs. 6 and I, the applil, in which slides a cup 8, carrying the lipstick cator may be of generally cylindrical form with material 9. This sliding cup is adapted to be the end inclined relative to the axis and this projected, as required,- by the stud l0, exposed single inclined surface be roughened or serrated 30 through slot II, in the side of the base sleeve. in the form of whorls 23, simulating the nat- A cover sleeve I2, slips over the base sleeve 1, ural whorls of the finger tip. This surface is and this cover sleeve is shown as having a reparticularly effective for spreading, smoothing duced end portion Hi, to form a seat for the and removing excess lipstick material. To place applicator I. this surface in the most accessible position, the 35 The applicator I may be and preferably is body of the applicator may be offset forwardly molded of thermoplastic material, crystal clear ,as indicated at 24, in respect to its cylindrical and bevelled and rounded as indicated in simubase portion 25. lation of the form of a finger tip. This simula- What is-claimed is:

tion may be further carried out by roughening An applicator for use with a lipstick case and 40 or serrating the bevelled and rounded tip of this comprising an open-ended cover sleeve slidably member as at l5, to approximate the surface of and removably engageable at one end over; lip-v a finger tip for spreading and smoothing purstick case and having its opposite end of reduced poses. diameter, an applicator element of hard solid The applicator tip is shown as' removably held impervious non-porous washable material seated 5 in the reduced end of the cover sleeve by indentin said reduced end of said cover sleeve and forming a portion IQ of the latter into a depression 20 ing a clo e r id applicator element in the side of the tip. having an exposed inclined end applicator sur- To cover and protect the applicator tip, a, tmmface with permanent serrations therein approxi- 5 ble shaped cover It, is shown slipped er th mating the surface ofa finger tip for spreading reduced end portion ll, of the first cover sleeve and smoothing purposes and thimble-like cove! and abutting against the shoulder n, of the sleeve sudingly and r -b v ncased over said latter. This provides a substantially smooth reduced'end portion of said cover sleei le and flush exterior. enclosing said exposed applicator surface portion By grasping sleeve i2. both covers as a unit of said applicator element. u may be slipped off the base sleeve and the lip- ISRAEL BLOOM.

stick material be then exposed for use as re- 

